So far in 2022, 11 million people from 200-plus countries around the world have benefitted from the Hymnary website! Thank you to all who use Hymnary.org and all who support it with gifts of time, talent and treasure. If you feel moved to support our work today with a gift of any amount and a word of encouragement, we would be grateful. You can donate online at our secure giving site. Or, if you'd like to make a gift by check, please send it to: Hymnary.org, Calvin University, 3201 Burton Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546. May the hope, love, joy and peace of Advent be yours this day and always.

Click here to donate to Hymnary.orgI have already donated. Please don't show this to me again this fund drive

I Long to Know Thee Better

I long to know thee better, To understand Thy will

Author: Mrs. M. L. Davidson
Tune: [I long to know Thee better] (Fillmore)
Published in 4 hymnals

Representative Text

1 I long to know Thee better,
To understand Thy will,
That I may loose the fetter,
That keeps me from Thee still.

Chorus:
I long to know Thee better,
To understand Thy will,
My Savior and my helper,
Thy love in me fulfil.

2 O Savior, draw me nearer,
There's safety at Thy side.
And there Thy love is dearer,
Than all the world beside. [Chorus]

3 With Thee the desert dreary
Is robbed of all its gloom,
The way so long and weary
Like summer gardens bloom. [Chorus]

Source: Crowning Glory No. 1: a choice collection of gospel hymns #165

All representative texts • Compare texts^ top

Author: Mrs. M. L. Davidson

(no biographical information available about Mrs. M. L. Davidson.) Go to person page >

^ top

Text Information

First Line: I long to know thee better, To understand Thy will
Title: I Long to Know Thee Better
Author: Mrs. M. L. Davidson
Language: English
Refrain First Line: I long to know Thee better
Publication Date: 1890
Copyright: Public Domain
^ top

Timeline

^ top

Instances

Instances (1 - 4 of 4)
TextPage Scan

Crowning Glory No. 1 #165

Crowning Glory No. 1 #165
Page Scan

Honey Out of the Rock #19

Honey Out of the Rock #19
Page Scan

Songs Tried and Proved #109

Songs Tried and Proved #109

The Crowning Glory Nos. 1 and 2 #d150

The Crowning Glory Nos. 1 and 2 #d150
All instances^ top
Suggestions or corrections? Contact us


Advertisements


It looks like you are using an ad-blocker. Ad revenue helps keep us running. Please consider white-listing Hymnary.org or subscribing to eliminate ads entirely and help support Hymnary.org.